Merry Mistletoe

Hello Crafters.

This is the third time
in the last few days that I’ve used a Christmas product that’s been
brought forward from last year – it’s so easy to overlook them!

This time it’s the Santa Sleigh
Framelits Dies, which is where the reindeer came from. 
 
You may already
know that I don’t like images, whether it’s people or animals, that
don’t have eyes, or they have closed eyes!

I always change them! 

The
reindeer is no exception, so I gave him a 3mm googly eye, and made a bit of mess with the glue! Grrr!!

Across
the front of the card – bearing in mind at this stage I wasn’t sure if
my card was going to be vertical and horizontal – I put a strip if the
Year Of Cheer DSP, layered on a piece of Fold Foil. 

I knew that I’d have
the strip going from top to bottom vertically, whichever way I my
finished card went!

The
reindeer is how I started my card, and I die cut him in Gold Foil.

Then
I looked for a sentiment that I haven’t used previously. 

This is a bit of a follow on from Frenchie’s video I told you about recently, when she explained how shemakes sure she uses all the stamp sets she buys!

I chose the
Christmas Wishes sentiment in the Merry Mistletoe Stamp Set, and heat
embossed it using Gold Embossing Powder on Whisper White Cardstock  (CS).

I
die cut the sentiment using one of the oval Stitched Shapes Framelits
Dies and adhered it to a layer of Gold Foil that I’d die cut using a
scalloped oval frame from the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies.

I
wasn’t sure where I wanted to go from here so I began building my
card, and started with a Whisper White CS card base.
 
Using Tombow, I
adhered a layer of Gold Foil, and then a top layer of Whisper White CS.

I
played around with positioning the sentiment and the reindeer,
sometimes landscape and sometimes portrait!

I eventually decided to use
another stamp in the Merry Mistletoe Stamp Set I haven’t used before
i.e. the branches of mistletoe (I think?) with the bow.

As this is a
clear mount stamp set, I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to make sure I stamped
the image in a straight line! 

I used Versamark and Gold Embossing
Powder, and heat set it using my Heat Tool.

I adhered the reindeer and the sentiment to the front of the card using Dimensionals.

To
finish my card, I took another layer of Gold Foil and a top layer of
Whisper White CS. 

To decorate the top layer in a straight line I drew a
pencil line about 1/8″ up from the bottom, so stamping the image
twice, and keeping them level would be so much easier!

When
I was ready to stamp the images with Versamark, I made sure I stamped both of them with a gap of another 1/8″ above the pencil line.

I did this, so that, when it
was time to erase the pencil line, I could do it without going over the
gold embossing. 

If I did, it would take the shine off the embossing, and make it
go matt!

That’s about it from me today, so until tomorrow, happy crafting!

JanB.